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Speaking at the press conference for upcoming boxing movie The Fighter, Wahlberg admitted that he had originally hoped to work with Fighter co-star Amy Adams on the M. Night Shyamalan film.
He explained: "I was such a huge fan of [Amy]. We’d actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. I don’t want to tell you what movie... All right, The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan. It is was it is."
The Oscar-nominated actor added that he took on the lead role in the critically derided film, about plant life turning against mankind, because it offered him the opportunity to play against type.
"F**king trees, man, the plants. F**k it," he said. "You can’t blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. You know? I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."
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